First, the enquiry
Send the address of the house and a few honest words about its condition and your timetable. There is no need to clean, decorate or stage anything before that message, and no visit is arranged until you agree to one.
The address is checked against the districts on the current buying map, and you hear back whether a figure is worth preparing, rather than being left in a queue of maybes.
Second, the evidence round
The team assembles what the street itself says: achieved prices for new houses on similar ground close by, the pattern of builder buying in the district, and the costs a project there would carry.
This is the slow part of the work and it is done before any number is mentioned, because a figure quoted first and justified later is usually a figure built to be negotiated down.
Third, a written figure
The offer arrives in writing with the reasoning underneath it available for inspection. Challenge an input and it gets answered with a number from the record, and if the record cannot support the challenge, that gets said too.
Accepting, waiting and declining are all live options at this point. The figure does not expire in a puff of pressure, and no fee attaches to having asked.
Fourth and fifth, your date and completion
You pick the completion date: inside 7 to 21 days where life is moving quickly, or months ahead where it is not, with a short stay after completion open for discussion where a move needs one. The date goes into the agreement and the firm works backward from it.
Completion then follows the practice of the state the house stands in, through a title company or an attorney. The house passes as it stands, no commission is deducted, no seller side charges from the firm appear, and after completion the property moves on to a builder while your part in it ends.